Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

This 90-acre cemetery in Sleepy Hollow is the final resting place of Washington Irving, Andrew Carnegie, and Walter Chrysler. Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was set right next door — and the cemetery was renamed at his request.

Thanks to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," this cemetery is considered one of the most haunted places in the world. The Headless Horseman, said to be a Hessian soldier decapitated by a cannonball during the Revolutionary War, rides through searching for his head. The "Bronze Lady," a statue gazing at Civil War general Samuel Thomas's tomb, is said to weep real tears - visitors claim to have felt them. Bright orbs dance around Washington Irving's gravesite, flitting among the surrounding mausoleums. During October, the village swells with tourists seeking the legendary horseman, and nighttime lantern tours reveal more than history.